The It Girl Comes Clean ; She's the Party Girl - Famed for Her Bizarre Behaviour - Who for Years Denied Using Drugs. Here, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Admits for the First Time the Pounds 400a-Day Habit That Ravaged Her Body and Nearly Killed Her...

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FOR two hours, the sixth-formers at Sherborne School in Dorset listened with rapt attention as one of their more famous 'old girls', Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, described her humiliating descent into cocaine addiction.

Invited back to her Pounds 21,000a-year public school to lecture pupils on the dangers of drug abuse, the former socialite and 'It Girl' left nothing out.

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The It Girl Comes Clean ; She's the Party Girl - Famed for Her Bizarre Behaviour - Who for Years Denied Using Drugs. Here, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Admits for the First Time the Pounds 400a-Day Habit That Ravaged Her Body and Nearly Killed Her...

From that first exhilarating line of coke at the age of 21, to that final lost weekend six years later, when she lay semi-comatose in her London flat covered in vomit and convinced she was going to die, the story was told in unflinching and shocking detail.

At the end, she asked the girls if they had any questions. A hand shot up: 'Tara, I just wanted to ask where you got your coat from. I really like it.'

Tara laughs as she recounts the incident last November. Indeed, it was just the kind of question she might once have asked herself, so convinced was she as a pupil that she would never take drugs.

For those who ha...

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